Ben Stocking, an Associated Press reporter in Vietnam was punched, choked and hit over the head with a camera by police who detained him 19 September 2008 while he covered a Catholic prayer vigil in Hanoi. The first portion of Stocking’s arrest was captured by an anonymous cameraman and posted on YouTube.

Released in 2003, this investigative report by Evan Williams for the Australian Broadcast Corporation’s TV program Foreign Corespondent gives an inside look at the growing dissenting Vietnamese nationals standing up to the Vietnamese communist government, as well as the highly organized opposition movement(s) working to fight the oppressive regime.